Crime Scene Investigation Laboratory Manual
- 1st Edition - December 7, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Marilyn T Miller
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 4 0 5 8 7 3 - 6
Crime Scene Investigation Laboratory Manual provides information, examples, and exercises for all aspects of crime scene investigation. The exercises will teach the proper techni… Read more
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Request a sales quoteCrime Scene Investigation Laboratory Manual provides information, examples, and exercises for all aspects of crime scene investigation. The exercises will teach the proper techniques for securing, documenting, and searching a crime scene, how to visualize or enhance the evidence found, how to package and preserve the evidence, and how to reconstruct what happened at the crime scene. This manual is intended to accompany any crime scene investigation textbook. Written by a former crime scene investigator and forensic scientist, the information is practical, straightforward, and will be immediately applicable. Learn all the latest techniques and procedures including deconstructing first responder contamination, the preliminary walk-through, utilizing associative evidence, enhancing trace, biological, and chemical evidence, and reconstructing scenes through wound dynamics, glass fracture patterns, bloodstain patterns, ballistics, and more.
- Designed to complement any text used in crime scene investigation courses
- Over 20+ proven exercises with material from actual crime scenes, providing students with hands-on learning
- Written by an experienced educator and former crime scene investigator/forensic scientist
Upper level undergraduate, graduate level forensic science students, instructors, law enforcement training academies, crime scene units.
Preface and Introduction
Purpose/Summary of the Manual
Coverage and Approach/Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Section I: Crime Scene Investigation: Scientific Methodology and Physical Evidence
Exercise A. Defining a Crime Scene
Objective
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise B. Physical Evidence at Crime Scenes
Objective
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise C. Locard Exchange Principle
Objective
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Section II: Initial Responsibilities and Beginning Scientific Crime Scene Investigation
Exercise D. First Responders at Crime Scenes
Objective
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise E. Crime Scene Security
Objective
Multilevel Crime Scene Security
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise F. Preliminary Scene Survey
Objective
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Section III: Crime Scene Documentation
Exercise G. Crime Scene Documentation: Notes
Objective
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise H. Crime Scene Documentation: Videography
Objective
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise I. Crime Scene Documentation: Photography
Objective
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Special Topic: Laser Scanners at Crime Scenes
Exercise J. Crime Scene Documentation: Sketching
Objective
Laborsatory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Section IV: Physical Evidence at Crime Scenes
Exercise K. Physical Searches
Objective
Objectives of a Crime Scene Search
General Concepts of Crime Scene Searches
Crime Scene Search Patterns
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise L. Visualization and Enhancement: Lighting Aids
Objective
Specific Evidence Applications
Photographic Methods
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise M. Visualization and Enhancement: Biological Evidence
Objective
Biological Evidence Enhancement Reagents
Field Tests for Biological Evidence
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise N. Visualization and Enhancement: Chemical Evidence
Objective
Tests for Gunshot Residue (GSR)
Tests for Explosive Residues
Tests for Controlled Substances and Drugs
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise O. Visualization and Enhancement: Combination Methods
Objective
Impression Evidence
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise P. Packaging, Preservation, and Collection of Evidence
Objective
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Section V: Crime Scene Reconstruction
Exercise Q. Final Scene Survey
Objective
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise R. Crime Scene Reconstruction: Wound Dynamics
Objective
Wound Dynamics
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise S. Crime Scene Reconstruction: Glass Fracture Patterns
Objective
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise T. Crime Scene Reconstruction: Bloodstain Patterns I
Objective
Basic Bloodstain Patterns
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise U. Crime Scene Reconstruction: Bloodstain Patterns II
Objective
Impacted Bloodstain Spatters Pattern
Repetitive Dripping Patterns
Arterial Gushes (Projected Blood)
Point of Origin of Bloodshed Determinations
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise V. Crime Scene Reconstruction: Shooting Investigations
Objective
Muzzle-to-Target Distance Determinations
Methods for Trajectory Determinations
Experimentation of Trajectories
Projectiles and Casings
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise W. Crime Scene Reconstruction: Mock Scene Reconstruction
Objective
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Exercise X. Crime Scene Reconstruction: Report Writing
Objective
Laboratory Data Sheet
Discussion Questions
Appendix. Solutions and Reagents
Acid phosphatase
Alcohol potassium hydroxide solution
Amido black
Cobalt thiocyanate reagent
Coomassie blue
Crowle’s double stain
Dille-Koppanyi reagent
Diphenylamine (DPA) reagent
Greiss Reagent
Kastle-Meyer or phenolphthalein reagent
Leucocrystal violet (LCV)
Luminol
Mandelin reagent
Marquis reagent
Methylene blue solution
Ninhydrin
O-Tolidine
Small particle reagent (SPR)
Tetramethylbenzideine (TMB)
Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 7, 2013
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780124058736
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Marilyn T Miller
Marilyn Miller is a graduate of Florida Southern College with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. She earned a master’s degree in forensic chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh and a Doctorate in Education from Johnson & Wales University in post-secondary educational leadership. Miller is a tenured, associate professor in the Department of Forensic Science at Virginia Commonwealth University. As a post-secondary educator for almost twenty years, she teaches a wide variety of forensic science and crime scene investigation classes to both forensic science and criminal justice majors at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is a Fellow in the Criminalistics section of the American Academy of Forensic Science, the Southern Association of Forensic Scientists and the American Chemical Society. Miller is a former faculty member at the University of New Haven and the Henry Lee Institute of Forensic Science/ National Crime Scene Training Center. She has presented and taught as part of hundreds of forensic seminars across the United States and foreign countries. She is the author or co-author for several textbooks or chapters concerning crime scene investigation or reconstruction and forensic science. Before coming to VCU, she worked as a supervisor and forensic scientist for law enforcement agencies in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Florida. She has testified over 400 times in county, state and federal courts of law as an expert witness in the field of forensic sciences and crime scene reconstruction. She has participated in hundreds of crime scene investigations, both as an active investigator. Currently, she also serves as a consultant for both prosecutors and defense attorneys. Miller designed, opened and operated crime scene units and forensic laboratories on the West Coast of Florida for over ten years.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Forensic Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USARead Crime Scene Investigation Laboratory Manual on ScienceDirect